Pilgrim,

Without straying into a discussion on sola scriptura, it seems to me that Scripture, being "all sufficient" is not a contradiction to God's private directives in our lives. This believe in God's noninvolvement courts the deist argument, the belief that God simply wound up the clock and let everything go according to a pre-planned course. Moreover, I've never seen a discernable element in the Reformation of belief in a God that doesn't continually interact with His children and provide them with divine guidance. I've heard many Protestants call Catholicism a "dead faith," but we believe in God who is continually involved and active in our lives through the express ministry of the Holy Spirit, giving personal directives to each Christian and divine revelation to the Church as a whole regarding issues that weren't dealt with in Scripture...such as birth control. While I don't think that any sect of Christianity can be called "dead faith" it seems that your theology has God in a museum neatly contained and controllable.

In the beginning verses of Hebrews, the author speaks of "these last days" in referrence to the Church age. From a dispensationalist point of view, we are still in "these last days." The author says that in these last days God has spoken to us through His Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things. I don't see this revelation as being restricted only to the Apostolic age. Particularly as people who revere the Scriptures as Reformationists do, it must be conceded that God gave divine revelation to the councils of Rome and Hippo in deciding canonicity. I'm seeing too many inconsistancies here.

Liberalism -- Ideas so good, they have to be mandated.